...Somewhere. At least today he is. Presidential candidate and New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson rounds out two weeks of presidential campaign fundraisers in the Philly area today with an evening event at Eviva, a restaurant in Narberth. The event is being organized by Steve Cozen, a big-time Philly lawyer and partner at Cozen O'Connor, and Donna Gentile O'Donnell, former campaign manager to Gov. Ed Rendell and wife of former state House Speaker Bob O'Donnell.Richardson is a long way from New Mexico and is not among the leading contenders in the Democratic field -- so the event will likely fall well short of the $500,000 Hillary Clinton raised last week in Philly. But some, including Gentile O'Donnell, think he will emerge from his dark-horse status into a contender in the presidential race given his credentials, Hispanic ethnicity and status as a red-state Democratic governor. Richardson served in Congress, has been an ambassador and is now a governor. And that's ignoring a lot more.

The trick is convincing folks that he's electable. Gentile O'Donnell clearly thinks he is. "If you look at the profiles of who most Americans are inclined to elect, … this is the profile of the person who becomes president," Gentile O'Donnell said of Richardson recently, after rattling off his resume, including that he speaks five languages (according to her).Some think Richardson is destined to become the vice presidential pick for whoever wins the primary, for some of the reasons outlined above. A prominent state Republican recently told me that he thought the eventual Democratic nominee would be crazy not to choose him. He said Richardson could help the nominee carry New Mexico (which went for Gore in 2000, but Bush in '04) and some surrounding traditionally Republican states, pull most of the growing Hispanic vote (nearly half of Latinos -- 45 percent -- voted for Bush in '04) and add a significant layer of domestic and foreign-policy experience to the ticket.